Fashion Loves Hanuk
Hanuk, a former fashion designer turned photographer, opens his first exhibition at Bellhaus, featuring New York’s fashion-ites in various stares of revelry.
Erwin Olaf
The Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf’s latest photo and video series, “Hotel” and “Dawn & Dusk,” opened last week at New York’s Hasted Hunt Kraeutler. ‘Dawn & Dusk’ mixes colour and black-and-white photography (a departure for Olaf); while ‘Hotel’ sees melancholic images of doll-like nude women in noirish hotel rooms.
Until March 20 at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, 537 West 24th Street, NYC
HYPER – Denis Darzacq
HYPER has opened at The Laurence Miller Gallery in New York - an exhibition of 15 photographs by the French photographer Denis Darzacq. Darzacq brings street dancers to the shopping aisles of garish supermarkets in Paris and Rouen and asks them to perform leaps and jumps - capturing them mid flight. Denis Darzacq has exhibited extensively in Europe and Australia over the past ten years. He has worked on music videos and feature films since 1985, collaborated with Agnes B on fashion catalogs, and has three monographs published.
Until March 27, 2010
Oooga Booga at The Swiss Institute
Ooga Booga is an independent book/art store in LA’s Chinatown, which has been championing artists and small pulishers since its opening in 2004. For two and a half months they will be taking up residence in The Reading Room at The Swiss Institute in Soho NYC with a selection of 300 + titles from self to professionally published.
Until Feb 13, 2010
Week-end by Alex Prager
Currently on show at Yancy Richardson Gallery NYC is Week-end, an exhibition of new work by LA-based artist Alex Prager. Inspired by her native city, Prager’s dramatic portraits of female characters are reminiscent of the work of Guy Bourdin and David Lynch; infused with a dark sense of foreboding. This is the third installment in the photographic trilogy, and will simultaneously be shown at the M + B Gallery in Los Angeles.
January 14 – February 20, 2010
It’s already the end of the world
A new exhibition opened this week at the Haunch of Venison New York by Brooklyn-based artist Brian Alfred. The show features 14 paintings, collage works and video that all reflect the connection that people or places have to power, influence and conflict. A 336 page catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Until Feb 20, 2010
Mike Kelly at Gagosian Gallery
Currently showing at Gagosian Gallery in New York is an exhibition of paintings by Mike Kelley entitled “Horizontal Tracking Shots.” The show is Kelley’s first exhibit in New York which is devoted solely to paintings.
On view until 23 December, 2009
Olivier Zahm at Half Gallery
Purple Magazine’s Olivier Zahm is exhibiting recent photos from his online diary at Half Gallery (208 Forsyth Street), New York until January 1.
Geneviève Gauckler — Digitally Isolated
Paris-based illustrator and designer Geneviève Gauckler embarks on her first London exhibition. On display is a series of limited edition silkscreen prints and acrylic paintings of her signature loveable characters. The show which opened at the Kemistry Gallery will run until December 19th, 2009.
032c – Industrial Light Magic
Berlin based art and culture magazine 032c has just launched their new issue (their 18th to date) to coincide with their first New York exhibition. The issue is dedicated to Thomas Demand and includes a portfolio and theoretical discussion of the artist’s work, amongst their usual mix of unpredictable features and ironic approach to fashion. Until 18.12.2009
StudioThompson and B Store
StudioThomson is celebrating its fifth birthday with a pop-up exhibition at London’s oh-so-cool B Store on Savile Row. For those not in the know, StudioThomson is a design and art direction agency that has worked across all media from fashion, to music, to art and interiors. The exhibition showcases a selection of their work for key clients including Pringle, Aquascutum and Preen. You can also pick up one of their notebooks displayed in the windows as a memento, which retail for only ten pounds and come come in 40 different shades.
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus was a hotbed of creative thinking, re-examining all the ways of modern life, and influencing everything from architecture to fashion, from painting to furniture-making. This ambitious survey of over 400 works dissects the Bauhaus movement through exhibits, a “lounge,” and hands-on art-making workshops. It includes not only works by the school’s famous faculty and best-known students—including Josef Albers, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, but also a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010
Lubalin Now
The pioneering designer Herb Lubalin (1918-1981) is famed for wildly expressive typography and groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros and Fact.
On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, this installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that illuminate Lubalin’s continuing influence in contemporary design.
The exhibition will also mark the debut of newly relocated The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography, situated in the college’s new state-of-the-art academic building at 41 Cooper Square.
Exhibition dates: November 5- December 8, 2009
41 Cooper Gallery
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter
The New York Based bookstore Printed Matter is the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications made by artists. This exhibition, on view in the Third Floor Archives at PS1, shows examples of its publishing history from 1976 to present, featuring more than 100 international artists.
On view October 8, 2009 - January 4, 2010
Christian Marclay: 2822 Records
Art you can walk on: Christian Marclay’s installation plasters a whole floor of Moma’s PS1 with twelve-inch records of all different genres.
On view September 5, 2009 - April 5, 2010
Anish Kapoor at The Royal Academy
The Royal Academy of Arts presents a major solo exhibition of the work of the internationally acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor, winner of the 1991 Turner Prize and one of the most influential and pioneering sculptors of his generation.
26th September to 11th December 2009
Pop Life: Art in a Material World
A new blockbuster exhibition at Tate Modern considers the legacy of the Pop Art movement. The show takes Andy Warhol’s notorious statement that “good business is the best art” as a starting point and examines the way artists such as Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, Richard Prince, Martin Kippenberger and Damien Hirst, to name a few, have embraced mass media to build their own ‘brands’.
Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jet Age Compendium
Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005) is perhaps best known for creating some of the earliest examples of British Pop Art, but less familiar is his work for the art and literature magazine, Ambit: work that shows a more politically engaged side to the artist than has previously been acknowledged. This exhibition presents Paolozzi’s Ambit works in the context of his other work from the late fifties to the early seventies.
4 September – 1 November 2009
Raven Row Gallery, 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS
Juergen Teller ‘Paradis’
German photographer Juergen Teller will present an exhibition entitled ‘Paradis’ at the Lehmann Mauplin Gallery in New York - his fifth at this location. The photographs were originally commisssioned for the French magazine, Paradis, and comprise of nude studies of Raquel Zimmermann and Charlotte Rampling shot one evening at the Musee Louvre in Paris. Alongside is a limited edition book available at the end of September 2009.
10 September – 17 October 2009
540 West 26th Street, New York
Emory Douglas: Black Panther
Emory Douglas, minister of culture and activist for the Black Panthers in the 1960s and 1970s, invented a bold graphic style to transmit his party’s militant agenda. Over two decades Douglas created countless artworks, illustrations, and cartoons, of which over 165 are displayed here, and 40 years on they remain just as powerful and arresting as when he first created them.
Until 18th October 2009
New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002